Elizabeth Warren (YouTube screengrab)
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Dear MoveOn member,
We commissioned a poll about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s standing in critical presidential primary states, and the results are stunning: When Democratic Iowa Caucus goers and New Hampshire primary voters get to know Elizabeth Warren, they overwhelmingly want her to run for president.1
Our poll shows that if Warren ran, she’d have a real shot. Now it’s up to us, together, to convince her to run.
Click here to automatically sign our petition, which says, “Dear Elizabeth Warren: Please Run for President.”
We turned to industry leaders at YouGov to conduct this poll, and this is what they found: Voters love Senator Warren’s personal story, her status (as Time put it) as a “new sheriff of Wall Street,”2 and, importantly, her major legislative proposals—lowering student-loan interest rates, expanding Social Security, breaking up the big banks, and holding Wall Street criminals accountable.
This poll shows unequivocally that a majority of voters in the two critical states of Iowa and New Hampshire are what we’d call “moveable”—they’re open to supporting Sen. Warren if we can tell them what she stands for. Realistically, the results don’t say that Sen. Warren would win today—but they show that Sen. Warren has a real opportunity to build the levels of support she would need to win in both states if she decided to run.
Now, it’s up to us to keep urging her to get in the race.
We can make these poll results send shock waves through the political press. And through some very strategic targeting—we can get them in front of real influencers in Washington and people close to Sen. Warren.
But first, we need to show that our movement continues to grow. That’s why we’re asking you to sign our petition today, help us get hit our latest goal of 300,000 signatures, and show that the momentum from our campaign keeps growing.
Let’s dig into the polling numbers a little bit.
Our results show that after these likely caucus goers and primary voters learn about Elizabeth Warren’s biography and issue positions, not only do a stunning 79% say they want her to run, but, in both states, Sen. Warren ends up leading all other potential Democratic candidates in a head-to-head ballot question.
Here’s more:
- 97% of survey respondents across both Iowa and New Hampshire agree with Warren’s call to lower student-loan interest rates.
- 92% agree with Sen. Warren’s call to expand Social Security benefits.
- 91% agree with her statement about breaking up the big banks.
Those numbers prove that Elizabeth Warren’s vision is powerfully resonant with the voters she would need to win the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary—especially the young voters who’ll be critical to any victory in 2016. Sen. Warren holds more than a 20-point lead in a head-to-head match-up with other potential candidates among respondents ages 18-29, once they learn about her.
Thanks to these results, we know that support for a contested primary is nearly unanimous among all age groups, and that a core segment of the winning Obama coalition—young people—are particularly excited about Sen. Warren.
Our job now is to capitalize on these results—and we can do just that by showing that this news is encouraging more and more people to join the Run Warren Run movement.
YADA YADA YADA YADA…Aren’t you tired of punching on a knife? There ARE options, but not if we remain caught in the duopoly’s rigged game.
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DO NOT LEGITIMATE THEIR RULE BY GOING TO THE POLLS, LIKE SHEEPLE, EVERY FOUR YEARS, AS COMMANDED. THE TIME IS COME FOR NEW TACTICS.
DO NOT VOTE, BUT explain WHY YOU DON’T!
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